Garment-supporting attachment



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A. M. ZIEGLER. GARMENT SUPPORTING ATTACHMENT. No. 367,492. Patented Aug. 2', 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALFRED M. ZIEGLER, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

GARMENT-SUPPORTING ATTACHMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 367,492, dated August 2, 1887.

Application filed April 16, 1887. Serial No. 236,144.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED M. ZIEGLER, of Boston, county of Suffolk, and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Garment-Supporting Attachments, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, Iike'letters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention has for its object the produc tion from wire of'a durable and serviceable stocking or garment supporting attachment.

My improved supporting attach mentis composed of a single wire suitably joined at its ends to form the upper end of the attachment, the sides of the attachment being bent to form springs and leave a converging slot leading toward the lower end of the attachment, into which slot the fabric to be engaged and held is drawn, the strain exerted by the fabric within the slot tending to straighten thespring parts of the attachment and cause the wire at the sides of the converging slot to approach each other and grasp the fabric more firmly.

Figure 1. in perspective shows a portion of a stocking'supporter provided with an attachmentemhodying my invention. Fig. 2 shows the attachment by itself, and Figs. 3 and 4t modified forms of my invention.

Referring to Figs. 1 and 2, the attachment madefroni wire has its ends overlapped and sol dcred or otherwise united together in usual manner, as at a. From its upper end the sides b diverge, and thereafter, or between the upper end, a, of the attachment and point a and d, the wire is bent to constitute springs, beyond which springs, toward and to the lower end, 6, of the attachment, the wire is so bent as to (No model.)

leave a converging slot with side walls, (I (l. The strap, asf, to which the attachment is secured, is passed through the upper enlarged end or eye of the attachment, and is secured about the end a in usual manner, as by stitching.

In the modification, Fig. 3, the spring part of the attach ment is somewhat di [Terently shaped; but the strain of thefabric in the diverging slot between the side walls, d, acts to draw the spring-sides of the attachment between the walls (I and the end 6 toward the center of the attachment, as shown by dotted lines.

In Fig 4, showing another modification of my invention, the spring portions are given substantially a full instead of a half or partial turn.

I claim-- The garment supporting attachment herein described, composed of a single wire connected together at the top or upper end of the attachment, the said wire being bent, substantially as described, to leave a slot having single opposed side walls, for the reception between them of the fabric to be held, the said wire between the said arms (2 and the upper end of the attachment being bent to 'form a spring, whereby strain upon the fabric between the said side walls causes the springs to be strained to clasp or hold the fabric more firmly.-

In testimony whereof I havesigned my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ALFRED M. ZIEGLER.

Witnesses:

G. W. GREGORY, F. L. EMERY. 

